RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 90, 19 April 1854, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before the Resident Magistrate and P.Wilson Esq., J. P.

I'nliirmnn Coleman complained that a cow of Mr. HirstS had been found Kitiir in the Deron Kond — contrary to the provisions ot the I'olice Ordionncr-

Mr Hirst did not deny that the row win out • hut it could have been out nnly n vcry/^hon t'mc ; li» olijiTled that he w.n singled out, while others wore permitted to do the sume thing with impunity. Horses who in the streets every doy running ut large, and the Polite werccojcnizint of the fuct.

Tiie Resident Mfljiistru'e fluid that the impunity of others w.is altogethi r out of the question. Ho was thers to administer the law under the Ordi* iifiicc. If the Police ne;;li'cted their duty a rcpris senMtioii .-hnulcl be tnnde to the Inspector, but it mti't be understood the impunity in one instiinco would not be considered a justification for a breach ot tho Ordinance in that Court. The Defendant was fined Is. mid costs.

Mr. BM'» complained of Mr. Oxenbam for permitting his 6herp to wnnder nt large in tho public thoroughfares on the 4th instant.

The defendant questioned the complainant a> to whore the sheep were, wiih the view of showing that although the sheep might have been trcitpatsing, they were not on the public roads, but only lllicited that although the sheep ware part of the time on his (ihe complainant' 6) land, they were olso in Frulford and Dawson streets.

Tliiro were upwards ot 100 sheep. * The defendant urged nothing ' n mitigation— and the Resident Magistrate fined him 50s. and casts, observing thnt tins was not a first offence, nnd that bo thought it a fit cine to mnks an example of.